Dark is a German science fiction thriller web series co-created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese. It is the first German-language Netflix original series and debuted on Netflix's streaming service on December 1, 2017. The first season received mostly positive reviews from critics. Positive and negative comparisons were made to the Netflix series Stranger Things. A second season has been approved by Netflix with production to begin in 2018.
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Premise
Children start disappearing from the fictional German town of Winden, bringing to light the fractured relationships, double lives, and dark past of four families living there, and revealing a mystery that spans three generations. The series follows: Jonas Kahnwald, a teenager struggling to cope with his father's suicide; police officer Ulrich Nielsen, whose brother disappeared 33 years earlier; and police chief Charlotte Doppler.
The story begins in 2019 but spreads to include storylines in 1986 and 1953 via time travel, as certain characters of the show's core families grow aware of the existence of a wormhole in the cave system beneath the local nuclear power plant, which is under the management of the influential Tiedemann family. During the first season, secrets begin to be revealed concerning the Kahnwald, Nielsen, Doppler, and Tiedemann families, and their lives start to crumble as the ties become evident between the missing children and the history of the town and its citizens.
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Cast and characters
The first season takes place mainly in 2019 but includes stories set in 1986 and 1953, with several characters being portrayed at various ages by multiple actors.
Kahnwald family
Nielsen family
Doppler family
Tiedemann family
Additional cast
- Andreas Pietschmann as the Stranger / adult Jonas
- Mark Waschke as Noah
- Lea van Acken as Girl from the future
Recurring supporting cast
- Nils Brunkhorst as the high school's science teacher in 2019
- Lena Dörrie as Clara Schrage, a nurse attending to Helge Doppler in 2019
- Tara Fischer as a friend of Katharina in 1986
- Leopold Hornung as Torben Wöller, a junior police officer in 2019
- Tom Jahn as Jürgen Obendorf, Erik Obendorf's father
- Anna König as Edda Heimann, a pathologist in 2019
- Vico Mücke as Yasin Friese, Elisabeth Doppler's friend in 2019
- Barbara Philipp as Selma Ahrens, a 1986 caseworker
- Paul Radom as Erik Obendorf, a teenage drug dealer gone missing in 2019
- Anton Rubtsov as Benni/Bernadette, a transgender prostitute in 2019
- Anna Schönberg as Nurse Donata, Ines Kahnwald's co-worker in 1986
- Mieke Schymura as Officer Jankowski, a junior police officer in 2019
- Lea Willkowsky as Jasmin Trewen, Claudia Tiedemann's secretary in 1986
Family trees
Episodes
Season 1 (2017)
Production
Netflix approved the series in February 2016 for a first season consisting of 10 one-hour episodes. Principal photography started on October 18, 2016 in and around Berlin and ended in March 2017. The series was filmed in 4K (Ultra HD) resolution. It is the first German-language Netflix original series and follows a trend of internationally produced Netflix originals, including the Spanish series Club de Cuervos in 2015, the Brazilian series 3% in 2016, and the Italian series Suburra: Blood on Rome in 2017.
Release
The first season of the series was released on December 1, 2017.
A second season was announced with a short teaser on the German Facebook pages of the series and Netflix on December 20, 2017, although no time frame has been confirmed for its creation or release.
Reception
The first season received mostly positive reviews from critics, with many noting its similarity to the 1990s TV series Twin Peaks and the 2016 Netflix series Stranger Things. It has a score of 86% on Rotten Tomatoes, with an average rating of 7 out of 10 based on 35 critics. The series was praised for its tone, the complexity of its narrative, and its pacing. Many claimed that it was darker and more in depth than Stranger Things, and far more evocative of the tone of Twin Peaks. However, there was some criticism of its heavy-handed approach to its message, the lack of sympathetic characters, and the unoriginality of certain aspects of the series.
Awards and nominations
The series was nominated for the Goldene Kamera TV awards 2018 in three categories: best series; best actress: Karoline Eichhorn as Charlotte Doppler; and best actor: Oliver Masucci as Ulrich Nielsen. None of these nominations resulted in being awarded, but Louis Hofmann received the "Best newcomer acting award" of the "Goldene Kamera" TV awards 2018, also in recognition of his lead role in Dark.
The series was awarded with the 2018 Grimme-Preis award in the category "fiction", which singled out the following cast and crew for awards:
- Jantje Friese (screenplay)
- Baran bo Odar (director)
- Udo Kramer (production design)
- Simone Baer (casting)
- Angela Winkler (actress)
- Louis Hofmann (actor)
- Oliver Masucci (actor)
The actors named are awarded as "representatives for the full cast".
References
External links
- Official website
- Dark on IMDb
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